ice-skated; ice-skating; ice-skates
: to skate on ice
: a shoe with a metal runner attached for ice-skating
Examples of ice-skate in a Sentence
Noun
a pair of ice skates
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Amy Graff, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Pittsburgh was also noted for having the fifth-most ice-skating rinks per capita.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Roger Sands, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
In winter when the bogs freeze, ice skate or kick sled before a retreat into a smoke sauna (which has no chimney and is heated for six hours before being ventilated, meaning a lingering smokey scent) for an authentically Estonian wilderness experience.
—Phoebe Smith, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Image In northern Kansas, a 100-mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed overnight on Saturday, according to the authorities, and video taken of the interstate and posted to Facebook showed vehicles gliding across lanes in all directions, as if on an ice-skating rink.
—Amy Graff, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Pittsburgh was also noted for having the fifth-most ice-skating rinks per capita.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
Many come to snow tube, ice skate, snowshoe or participate in a variety of winter games.
—Roger Sands, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
In winter when the bogs freeze, ice skate or kick sled before a retreat into a smoke sauna (which has no chimney and is heated for six hours before being ventilated, meaning a lingering smokey scent) for an authentically Estonian wilderness experience.
—Phoebe Smith, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Ice-skate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-skate. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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